In her interviews, Reneé Rapp says that her father Charles inspired her to start a Tik Tok account. The previous Tik Tok version – Musical.ly with lip-syncing short videos – was Charles’s favorite app. He advised his daughter to register there, so in November 2019 Reneé created a TikTok account.
Charles William Rapp spent his childhood years in Charlotte, NC. He is the son of the late Charles R. Rapp (passed away in 1999) and his wife Loretta Szafaryn Rapp (passed away in 2005). Charles has three sisters, Leslie, Nancy, and Susan. He is a businessman, and previously served as an agent of the limited-liability company “Lar/Drc Holdings Llc”.
Charlie and Renee share warm father-daughter relationships. The young music star enjoys great support from her father’s side, who visits her concert shows regularly.
Denise Rapp (mother)
Date of birth: December 1965
Renee used to tell, that she had some conflict with her mother in her teens. The woman didn’t approve of Renee’s too frivolous behavior on social media. Renee posted quite challenging content, like her first kisses with a boyfriend, which irritated her mom.
Nowadays, Denise Jo Rapp, born Olexa, is her daughter’s biggest fan and supporter. Denise is the daughter of Joseph and Jane Olexa. She grew up in Morgantown, Virginia with a brother Eric Olexa, and a sister Michele Yeager.
Denise is a West Virginia University graduate. Currently, she works as a self-employed business manager. For many years she served at the well-known audit company “Grant Thornton LLP”.
No need to say, that Denise is Renee’s supporter. She manages her career nowadays.
Reneé Rapp siblings
Charles Rapp (younger brother)
Date of birth: circa 2004
Renee has just one sibling – a younger brother Charles Jr. In her recent interview, Charlotte used to tell, that her brother is a “touchstone of inspiration and support” for her. In 2022, he graduated from Hopewell High School. He gained initial popularity as a school theater actor there. Charles played the lead role in “Hairspray”, the performance, staged by the Hopewell Theater. He also played Pippen in the play “Spring Cabaret”. He played soccer for the school team, too. As a talented actor, Charles won the Blumey Award.
After graduation from school, the young man moved to New York City to pursue a career as a singer and actor there. He is a Broadway workshop trainee nowadays. The boy has already appeared in several Broadway plays. He has already released three music videos to the song “She Loves Me” and some others.
Bio
Reneé Mary Jane Rapp gained wide popularity during the last years. The fans know and love her as Regina George from the Broadway play “Mean Girls”, which she later represented in the TV version. Besides, she acts as Leighton Murray in the HBO Teen Drama series “The Sex Lives of College Girls”. Renee is also a talented vocalist and has already released her debut pop EP “Everything to Everyone”.
Since her earliest years, the girl was sure, that she would become a singer and actress. At first, her talent was noticed by her maternal grandmother Jane, who saw the 6-year-old girl at the music camp singing “Faithfully”, originally performed by the famous rock band “Journey”. Then, Renee’s music teacher told grandmother Jane, that her little girl would perform on a big stage one day.
She began acting in the school theater during her years at Hopewell High. Little Renee was targeted to get the prestigious award “The Blumeys”, which is given to top theater performers among students in Charlotte, NC. No need to say, that she achieved her goal. In 2018 she got The Blumeys for her role of Sandra in the play “Big Fish’, staged by the school theater. That very year Renee’s talent was marked by another prestigious award – The Jimmy, given by the National High School Musical Theatre for the best performers among students. After that, she was noticed by talent agents. It opened her doors to Broadway, where she was cast as Regina in “Mean Girls”.
Renee is a very creative girl, who has developed a huge social media presence. Still, online her fans may find Renee’s Vine videos, old YouTube videos, etc. but she considers singing as her main activity and her cup of tea.
Her debut set of songs “Snow Angel”, released in 2022 through “Interscope Records”, was ranked as the 44th best album by “The Billboard 200”. It also occupied the 7th position in the UK Albums Chart.
Interesting and fun facts
She is openly bisexual, and that is the thing, which she has in common with “The Sex Lives of College Girls” character Leighton. Renee confessed in her Vogue interview, that it was hard for her to become openly queer during her high school years, and in the Charlotte area, the rules for high school girls are rather strict. But she managed to build her mental walls.
Renee is a social media star with more than 2 million subscribers on Instagram and about 1.5 million followers on TikTok.
Ms. Rapp is a very athletic girl. When she was in the 7th grade, she played for the school golf team. Ms. Rapp had to play for the boy’s team as there was not any girls’s one in her school at that time.
She keeps extremely private about her personal life. But it’s known, she was in relations with a singer Antonio Cipriano.
Her height is 5 ft 7 in and her weight is 115 pounds.
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